Plow attachment.



no. 635,388. Patented Oct. 24, I899. B. L. POOL.

PLOW ATTACHMENT.

(Application filed July, 28, 1899.)

(No Model.)

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BENJAMIN L. POOL, OF BEN WHEELER, TEXAS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO OLAUD L. STANFORD, OF SAME PLACE.

PLOW ATTACHM ENT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 635,388, dated October 24, 1899.

Application filed July 28, 1899. Serial No- 725,411. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, BENJAMIN L. PooL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Ben Wheeler, in the county of Van Zandt and State of Texas, have invented a new and useful Plow Attachment, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to plow attachments,

and the intention and purpose of the same is to provide means for applying to an ordinary turning-plow a convenient form of 'device for supporting sweeps, scrapers, or analogous implements without changing the particular arrangement of the plow or detracting from its x 5 usefulness, and thereby making it possible to carry on the ordinary plow operation and adding thereto the beneficial influences or advantages of the conjoint addition of sweeps or other similar implements.

'20 The invention essentially consists of a rail adapted to be applied to the interior of the landside of an ordinary turning-plow or to constitute or serve as a lower rail for the landside itself and having projected later- 2 5 ally from the rear portion a neck with an upstanding rearwardly-oblique foot provided with an elongated slot to receive a fastening-bolt employed to secure sweeps, wings, scrapers, or other analogous implements in go adjustable position on the said foot and in rear of the moldboard and. other portions of an ordinary turning-plow. I

The invention further consists of the details of construction and arrangement of parts 3 5 which will be more fully hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of an ordinary turningplow, showing the improved attachment ap- 40 plied thereto. Fig. 2 is a bottom plan view of apart of aplow and the attachment. Fig. 3 is a detail perspective view of the attachment. Fig. 4 is an enlarged section on the line ca 00, Fig. 1.

Similar numerals of reference are employed to indicate corresponding parts in the several views.

The numeral 1 designates an ordinary turning-plow having a moldboard 2 and a land side 8. The rail orsecuring-arm 4 of the improved attachment is adapted to be bolted to and has its lower edge preferably located in a plane coincident with that of the lower edge of said landside. The numberof bolts and boltopenings that are necessary to secure a landside in position vary in different plows, and it is intended to be understood that the rail or arm 4 will be supplied with the number of bolt-openings necessary to adapt it for securement to any kind of plow commercially known and having features of construction to render the improved attachment applicable thereto. From the rear termination ofthe rail or bar 4 and projected laterally inward is a neck 5, which connects the said rail or 6 bar with the lower portion of an upstanding foot 6, having a rearward oblique arrangement and supplied with an elongated slot 7, extending entirely therethrough to the rear side. The neck 5 is thickened or made heavy to resist strain or breakage incident tothe drag of the implements that may be applied to the foot, and the slot 7 is preferably of rectangular formto receive a bolt 8, having a square body 9 and a lower reduced screwthreaded end 10 for the reception of aclamping-nut. By the use of the bolt having a square body only one fastening device is necessary to firmly connect the attachments to the foot 6, and thus save time and labor in So substituting differentimplements, as the soil treated may require. By making the slot 7 elongated the wings, scrapers, sweeps, or other implements that are applied to the foot can be adjusted to adapt them to deep or shallow culture, and it is intended that the rail or arm 4 be removable, so that it can be quickly detached when its use is not desired.

In the drawings one form of sweep 11 is shown, and this {may be varied, and other devices may replace the same. Heretofore it has been customary to apply these sweeps, scrapers, and otherimplements to straight plow-stocks, and the accomplishment of this mode of attaching such implements is attended with very many inconveniences and annoyances. By the mode of applying the attachment, as heretofore set forth, through the medium of a rail or bar carrying the foot very many advantages are gained, and particularly the re- 10o duction of draft power and attendance ordinarily required to make these devices successf ul in theiroperation. Secondary plows might also be attached to the foot 6 and serve as followers to the main turning-plow in various forms of cultivation, and other changes will suggest themselves from time to time,and particularly in the proportion, size, and minor details which can be resorted to to accommodate different applications without in the least departing from the spirit of the invention or sacrificing any of the advantages thereof.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is- 1. An attachment for a plow consisting of a securing member having a laterally-projecting neck supporting an upstanding, rearwardly-inclined slotted foot adapted to receive a securing-bolt.

2. An attachment for a plow, comprising a securing member having a laterally-projecting neck supporting an upstanding rearwardly-inclined slotted foot, the slot in the foot being angular, and a fastening-bolt having an angular body to fit the said slot of the foot.

3. The combination, with a plow, of a rail or bar adapted to be secured against the inner portion of the landside thereof and having a rear laterally-projecting neck continuous with the lower portion of an upstanding rearwardly-inclined foot, the said foot having an angular elongated slot therein, and a bolt having an angularbody to fit the said slot of the foot and adapted to secure an attachment in the foot.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

BENJAMIN L. POOL.

\Vitnesses:

B. F. SANDERS, W. V. Guns. 

